Gcastellano.com - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
97% 
Page quality
67% 
Page structure
65% 
Link structure
22% 
Server
69% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.63 s
File size
85.30 kB
Words
1552
Media files
2
Number of links
208 internal / 27 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Giuseppe Castellano
The page title is too short. (189 pixels of 580 max pixel length) Optimize title
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
The official website of Giuseppe Castellano, Educator, Art Director, and Host of The Illustration Department Podcast
The length of the meta description is perfect. (712 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
http://www.gcastellano.com/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en-us
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en-us
Alternate/Hreflang Links
(Somewhat important)
There are no alternate links specified on this page.
Other meta tags
(Somewhat important)
There is no rel next meta tag on this page.
There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.
Domain
(Somewhat important)
The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
Page URL
(Somewhat important)
No parameters were found in the URL.
No session ID was found in the URL.
The URL does not have too many subdirectories.
Charset encoding
(Somewhat important)
The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
(Nice to have)
The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
(Nice to have)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are 9 text duplicates on this page:
  • Duplicate: To read the rest of this post, subscribe to The Illustration Departmen...
This page contains 1552 words. That's ok.
38.5% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
32 paragraphs were found on this page.
The text content is perfect.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
The average number of words per sentence of 15.07 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
No Apple touch icon is specified.
This page loads 12 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
A viewport "initial-scale=1" is provided.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 31 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.
Additional markup
(Nice to have)
This page uses Google authorship information without an image.
HTTPS
(Somewhat important)
The HTTPS protocol for secure data transmission is not used.

Media list

URLAlt attributeTitle
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...ZYV64ED/Castellano_Logo.png?format=1500wGiuseppe Castellano

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Giuseppe Castellano
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (19 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings occur twice on the page.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Giuseppe Castellano
H1 Giuseppe Castellano Duplicate text
H1 10 Lessons I Learned After Recording 85 Podcast Episodes
H1 The Illustrator’s Portfolio
H1 Postcards and the 10%
H1 Do What You Don’t Love
H1 Forget “Style”
H1 10 Mistakes Illustrators Make
H1 Do I Need An Agent? (Or A Blog About the Life of a Submission, in Three Acts)
H1 Animation and Children’s Books
H1 On Managing Time, Insecurities, and the Magic Mirror Gate
H1 Designing an Imprint Logo
H1 Baseball and Illustration
H1 No, GO to Art School
H1 The Search for Illustrators
H1 Welcome to the #ArtTips Blog!
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
There are 14 links with a trivial anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are too many external links (27) on this page.

Found links on this page

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http://www.gcastellano.com/#arttips
http://www.illustrationdept.com/New window External Subdomain The Illustration Dept.
https://illustrationdept.com/p...New window External The Illustration Dept. Podcast
/art-directionArt Direction
/illustrationIllustration
/drawings-paintingsDrawings & Paintings
/interviewsInterviews
http://www.gcastellano.com/aboutAbout
/contactContact
http://www.gcastellano.com/IMG-ALT Giuseppe Castellano
http://www.gcastellano.com/Text duplicate IMG-ALT Giuseppe Castellano
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/arttips/10-lessons-i-learned-...October 15, 2019
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/arttips/10-lessons-i-learned-...Trivial anchor text
Read more
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/arttips/theillustratorsportfolioThe Illustrator’s Portfolio
/arttips/theillustratorsportfolioDecember 13, 2017
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/arttips/postcards-and-the-10-...Postcards and the 10%
/arttips/postcards-and-the-10-...Text duplicate December 13, 2017
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Read more
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/arttips/2015/1/8/do-what-you-...Do What You Don’t Love
/arttips/2015/1/8/do-what-you-...Text duplicate December 13, 2017
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Read more
/arttips/category/#arttipsText duplicate #arttips
/arttips/category/agentagent
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/arttips/tag/Giuseppe+CastellanoText duplicate Giuseppe Castellano
/arttips/2015/1/8/do-what-you-...12 Comments
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/arttips/forgetstyleText duplicate December 13, 2017
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/arttips/tag/Giuseppe+CastellanoText duplicate Giuseppe Castellano
/arttips/do-i-need-an-agent22 Comments
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/arttips/2015/2/2/animation-an...December 12, 2017
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/arttips/2015/2/2/animation-an...18 Comments
/arttips/2015/1/6/on-managing-...On Managing Time, Insecurities, and the Magic Mirror Gate
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/arttips/category/illustrationText duplicate illustration
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/arttips/tag/Giuseppe+CastellanoText duplicate Giuseppe Castellano
/arttips/2015/1/6/on-managing-...17 Comments
/arttips/designinganimprintlogoDesigning an Imprint Logo
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/arttips/category/literary+agentText duplicate literary agent
/arttips/category/marketingText duplicate marketing
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/arttips/category/postcardsText duplicate postcards
/arttips/category/productivityText duplicate productivity
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/arttips/tag/Giuseppe+CastellanoText duplicate Giuseppe Castellano
/arttips/tag/Jon+HendrixJon Hendrix
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/arttips/2015/4/20/no-go-to-ar...33 Comments
/arttips/thesearchforillustratorsThe Search for Illustrators
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/arttips/tag/Giuseppe+CastellanoText duplicate Giuseppe Castellano
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/arttips/2014/12/10/welcome-to...December 10, 2014
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HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
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HTTP header
(Important)
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This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.63 seconds is longer than the recommended limit of 0.4 seconds. A high response time unnecessarily slows down search engine crawling and results in bad user experience as well.
This page loads 12 JavaScript files. This may affect the load time negatively.
This page only loads 2 CSS files. That's ok.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (85 kB).

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External factors

Blacklists
(Nice to have)
This website is not classified "for adult only".
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 38 referring domains.
This page has 342 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 34 different ip addresses.
Facebook popularity
(Somewhat important)
The page has 94 shares and comments on Facebook.

Links from Wikipedia

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